Communication anxiety among the high school students

This research has been made by the aim of determining the existentcommunication anxiety among the general high school students. The research hasbeen restricted with the students that have education in general high schools.The present research is in descriptive scanning model and its data have beencollected by the application of interview technigue.The necessary data in order toreach the determined aim of the researcher have been obtained by interviewquestions which were developed by the researcher and the data collecting tool,theinterview forms,have been carried out to 50 students chosen from 5 general highschools.The interview form is consisted of the questions about the studentscommunicating manners and difficulties in the first section, their anxieties during thecommunication period in the second section, their communication anxieties sourcesin the third section and the diagnostic questions about preventive measures andsuggestions aimed at to overcome the students communication anxieties. The datahave been classified with the markings and the explanations being done related to thegiven answers on the interview form. In analyzing the data that were brought to anappropriate for SPSS programme, frequency (f) and percentage (%) values aimed atto determine the quantities of the interrogated special features have been examined incase of tables. It has been utilized as arithmatic mean (x) related to the occuringdegrees of the interrogated special features connected with communication anxietyand (t) test statistic on data aimed to the male and female students communicationanxieties.According to the answers given by the students that are situated on theinterview form and according to the findings that are obtained from the explanations,communication anxiety is seen to be more higher in female students than males. Incontrast to this, female students believe the effect of alternative solutions more thanmales about to overcome the problems created by communication anxiety. Both maleand female, in two student groups, members of the family are the ones whom thestudents experience the most diffuculty in the communication . Except the family,the teachers are the group that the students have the most difficulty in comunication.The students believe that they are able to cope with communication anxieties.But having support from the outside is restricted only with family, friend and teachersupport. The lowness of student levels and desires about psycological help inprofessional meaning will probably cause another problems in the future. In thatcontext, first of all it is needed to strengten school guidance units in order to provideprofessional help for students and to provide guidance teachers as personnel inschools that have no position on the permanent staff.